On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 11:40:31 PM, David wrote:
>> Please help me convince them to change this this by suggesting to
>> Google that they target support for SVG images, or complaining loudly
DW> I think your efforts would be better directed at Microsoft. Until there
DW> is a reasonable chance of ordinary PC users being able to the view the
DW> images, it may well be reasonable for Google to discourage their use.
Ordinary PC users using Opera, Firefox, Safari, or Konqueror already can.
DW> You generally need your own web server if you are going to content
DW> negotiate.
Google have their own web server and are quite capable of either server-side content negotiating, or of doing a server-side rasterisation and generating the client-side cntent negotiation markup
<object data="foo.svg>
<img href="foo.png" alt="a foo"/>
</object>
I have contacted the Google AC rep, who is looking into it.
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Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org
Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
W3C Graphics Activity Lead
Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG